Understanding research methods and statistics in psychology. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Helen Gavin.
• Other Names: Gavin, Helen
• Contents: PART ONE: FIRST EXPLORATIONS; The Range of Research; Ethics in Research; Some Shocking Cases; Some Basic Concepts in Psychological Research; PART TWO: BEGINNING QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH; Using Numbers to Describe Behaviour; Inferential Statistics; Why and What?; Simple Experimental Designs; Being Watched; Single Factorial Designs; The Levels of Processing Experiments; Survey Research; Who is afraid of Crime?; Correlational Designs; The Poor Relation?; PART THREE: COMPLEX QUANTITATIVE DESIGNS; Factorial Designs with More than One Factor; A Closer Look at Memory; Multivariate Statistics; Complex Correlational Designs and Analysis; Stats Can Be Murder; PART FOUR: BEGINNING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; Theory in Qualitative Research; Designing Qualitative Research; PART FIVE: COMPLEX QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; Interviews and Focus Groups; Participant Observation; Girls, Gangs and Aggression; Thematic Analysis; Discourse Analysis; Power and Control; Evaluation Research; PART SIX: COMMUNICATION OF RESEARCH; Communicating Research
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (424 pages)
• Subjects: 150.72; Psychology -- Research -- Methodology; Psychology -- Statistical methods
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446204603
• Related ISBNs: 144620460X
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